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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1927
Page
7
Brighton wire notes Dan Peters and family traveling to Columbus Junction for the 50th wedding anniversary of Richard and Mrs. Peters. The column also lists numerous local visits, illnesses, social events, school notes, church sermons, and community updates including plans for an oyster supper and a church program.
Des 6. The school children are selling Christ mas seals with 500 to dispose of if possible. Norman Rogers Bean aged 6 months, died Monday from pneumonia and weak heart action. Funeral Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. at the residence. Sympathy to the bereaved parents. The Ladies Aid met with Mrs. E. F. Frey last Thursday.
Miss Nellie Manners reports the birth of Lila Joan Maxwell to Mr. and Mrs. Lisle Maxwell. In sports the high school opened the season with a double header win over Cotter. girls 11 to 3 and boys 32 to 28, with Twinam, Hanna, Edgar, Mitchell, Holmes and Howes in the lineup. Louisville visitor Lee Huston and J. G. Maxwell of Washington attended business and merger news at First Savings Bank stockholders meeting. Anwyl sustained a broken nose early in the game as Cotter led the first half and the Cy clones surged to victory.
Mrs Margaret Witting and family and others visited A Herzog home at Mt Pleasant. Willis Nickolaus returns home on vacation from John Deere plow works. Jass Peck hires Goff family to husk corn. Paul Teichty home from Memorial hospital Mt Pleasant after appendectomy. Frank Rich and Irvin Fischer helped husk corn Friday.
The Wellman Community club held its annual event with supper by Mrs. F Schroeder of the Park hotel featuring roast pork mashed potatoes and other fare. Tom Flaherty, president, led as toastmaster and urged stronger club unity and town benefits with broad business participation.
Alie Saltzman of Salem visited from Saturday to Monday with relatives. Edwin Saltzman made a business call Monday forenoon. Joe Schlatter and Mrs. Schlatter with children visited relatives in Washington and Brighton Sunday. Velma Johnson is expected home Tuesday after an appendix operation at Washington county hospital. Joseph Reschley Jr. was a business caller Monday afternoon. Homer Weaver family visited John Conrad in Wayland Wednesday evening. Lyman Johnson daughter Marie Effie Wittmer and children visited Washington Saturday evening. Arthur Wyse family visited Homer Weavers Thursday evening. Ed Roth Edd Kauffman and Clyde Clark group visited Stanley McBeth at Trenton Monday. Milo Kempf was a business caller at Fred Wyse's Monday evening. Pleasant visitors Saturday afternoon. Stanley McBeth family visited parental Edd Roth home Thursday evening. Glenn Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Payne, broke his arm while playing Sunday. Children ate Sunday dinner with…
Mrs. Ida Meeks reports visits and dinners across Highland Center with families from Wellsville Columbus City and nearby towns. Residents including the Meeks Steele Grecian Spreacker Rath Marshall and Havel households figure in church service grocery trips and school attendance records.
The H. H. club met last Thursday with Laura Hoxworth for its annual gathering. Theo Orez laid a cement floor in his cattle barn. Geo Hopping's Washington place had a pasture burned, a new garage built, and a barn under construction with help from I B Hoxworth Lewis Rath and Will Longer. Ramseyer visited the neighborhood to discuss egg sales this spring. Families visited Will Longer and shared Sunday at his home with Lyman Babcork Charles McKay and sons Lloyd Everette George Happing.
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